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Also, yay we get Team Rocket and them blasting off. ;D Also, I wonder if it actually was a Ho-oh that he saw. D= It certainly does look like it. Although I'm sure the picture on the wall of the Pokemon Center was of an Articuno. =S

Also, yay we get Team Rocket and them blasting off. ;D Also, I wonder if it actually was a Ho-oh that he saw. D= It certainly does look like it. Although I'm sure the picture on the wall of the Pokemon Center was of an Articuno. =S

Team Rocket's first appearance in the series. The one episode where I found them to be intimidating, credible villains until the next episode where they turned out to be comedy relief. Still, this was a great episode. The Pikachu power source was really cute but the Pikachu' chanting their name over and over again became pretty annoying. I liked Team Rocket lines in this episode as well. They said some pretty funny stuff that I laugh about to this very day especially their lines towards Misty as she tried to battle them.

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I don't think Ash messed up, he's lucky to travel with Misty. She's the most fun character out of them all. Team Rocket's first appearance was bound to make this episode brilliant! I also loved seeing Goldeen being pathetic. Although I guess it did stall for a bit of time.
Why Arcanine with the legendary birds? I fail to understand...

I don't think Ash messed up, he's lucky to travel with Misty. She's the most fun character out of them all. Team Rocket's first appearance was bound to make this episode brilliant! I also loved seeing Goldeen being pathetic. Although I guess it did stall for a bit of time.
Why Arcanine with the legendary birds? I fail to understand...

Well the Pokemon Yellow Pokedex entry on Arcanine reads "A legendary Pokémon in China. Many people are charmed by its grace and beauty while running. " so it is a Legendary pokemon in a sense.

Here, we are formally Introduced to Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy, and Team Rocket. After being dropped off at the Pokemon Center by Jenny and having phoned home to his Mom and Oak, Misty shows up with the ruins of her bike, demanding Ash replace it. Then Jesse, James, and Meowth break it the center to steal all the Pokemon and are quite threatening, until Ash's Pikachu is healed and finally defeats them with such a massive Thundershock it destroys the Pokemon Center. After this, Team Rocket vows to steal the powerful Pikachu, thus beginning their long, long antagonism of Ash and his friends. Misty starts traveling with Ash until her bike is replaced, and the 2 head into Viridian Forest, where Ash finds a wild Caterpie, and aims to catch it.

I know Misty was trying to buy time, but why send out Goldeen if she was fully aware it wouldn't fight? Wouldn't sending out Staryu and actually fighting them have held them off longer? That was a weird episode.

I didn't see this one when it originally ran; I had to see it years later on VHS. At first, I thought it was a rather mediocre episode. After watching it a few more times, I realized it's pretty good. It's fairly suspenseful, and, at this point in the series, Team Rocket's attacks hadn't become cliche.

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Um, Misty joins Ash here.....great......... yeah, I've always found Misty to be overrated. People need to stop shoving their worship of her down people's throats, because she's just a random cartoon character, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon~

Other than that, this episode was enjoyable and much better than the one before it. 9/10 not bad. It also introduced Team Rocket and that's good because they were hilarious IMO. (at least in Kanto, anyway.)

Another good episode. It's funny that Misty carried her bike all the way to the Pokemon Center, but then left it there. What was the point of bringing it? xD Just to show Ash? The Officer Jenny was a bit crazy. I know Team Rocket were known to steal Pokemon, but I don't think she should have suspected Ash had done it. Now, onto Nurse Joy, she was a bit rude to Ash. She should have asked him what happened, before she snapped at him. I love Jessie and James' old voice, but I don't like Meowth's. :/